Anne, I really liked the choices you made for your rhyming pattern in this. A lot of times rhyming can seem artificial, but your choices seemed non-intrusive but added a lovely voice to the poem’s very heartfelt emotion. Nice!

Thank you so much, Theresa. I really appreciate your comment, always. The encouragement means a lot to me. Often, past heartbreaks make us wary and scared. We become too careful as we don’t want to get too hurt again so we do what we think is right to prevent it. I think I did that quite a bit after my divorce. Luckily, I learned to be brave again. 🙂

A bit about me

I'm a Philippine island girl in Africa, a Filipino-South African.
A mad banana woman that I am, I live "la vida loca". The banana part isn’t only because I'm Anna (Banana) but because an old boyfriend had observed that although Asian (yellow on the outside) I'm very much Caucasian in my way of thinking (white in the inside) and my actions, too. It's a rather accurate observation. I am that liberal-thinking and modern-acting Filipino... I remain my tragic-comedic self with a day job in slightly more serious field of Finance, Business Operations and Corporate Affairs.